Understand Quotes · Page 81

People name things they do not understand to console themselves in their ignorance.

— Vikrant Parsai

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

— Anonymous

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

— Kendrick Lamar

Men are simple minded. The fact that women can't understand them, begins to show just how complex they are...

— Anonymous

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

— Frantz Fanon

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

— Ralph Peters

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

— Anthony Hopkins

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

— Yo-Yo Ma

We may not be able to understand how things got worse but at least we must try to understand this is God's…

— Jessel Jane Zozobrado

Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and…

— Michael Rosen

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest…

— Thomas Carlyle

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I…

— Shia LaBeouf

Maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand why they act that way towards you. As the result,…

— Anonymous

We understand about stereotyping and profiling, but it's still there. I've only known a post-9/11 world as an adult. I've only known…

— Asim Chaudhry

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that…

— Joni Mitchell

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak…

— Rowan Atkinson

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what…

— John McWhorter

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I…

— Abigail Washburn

I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social…

— Joe Miller

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London…

— Jane Goodall

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for…

— Anonymous

Understanding is the key to everything. To rage, fear, love. If you understand a situation, it's going to make you mad. Or…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our…

— Kamand Kojouri

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our…

— John Perkins

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

— Clarence Darrow

The toughest situations help you understand your true strength and that's how it has been for me always.

— Shamita Shetty

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

— Henry Heimlich

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

So whether or not you understand, that there's only one DJ Q-U-I-K with no C still you can't be me.

— DJ Quik

You'll never understand me until you have gone through what I gone through.

— Anonymous

“We can only understand what art is through its embeddedness in an artworld.”

— Barbara Bolt

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

— Tony Hancock

Me:Yes mom,I understand!!-2 minutes later:Wait,what did she say again??

— Anonymous

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

— Ana Kasparian

“Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.”

— Krist Pauwels

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.

— Eleanor Catton

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.

— Millar Burrows

Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.

— Alison Sudol

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

— Douglas Dunn